Preface
1: 300-700
2: The Franks and the State of France
3: The Old German Constitution
4: The Barbarians and the Fall of Rome
5: Empire and Aftermath
6: Nation, Class, and Race
7: The Lombards and the Risorgimento
8: Heirs of the Martyrs
9: Language, Law, and National Boundaries
10: Romans, Barbarians, and Prussians
11: Teutons, Romans, and 'scientific' history
12: About Belgium: the impact of the Great War
13: Past Settlements: interpretations of the Migration Period from
1918-45
14: Christian Engagement in the interwar period
15: The emergence of Late Antiquity
16: Presenting a new Europe
Bibliography
Ian Wood is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages is a splendid survey,
full of new and interesting things. It will enlighten the young and
infuriate their elders, not least those of Marxist persuasion. It
is a pleasure to read
*Nicolas Vincent, Times Literary Supplement*
In this excellent book Wood employs an impressive range of primary
and secondary sources to provide fascinating insights into the
origins of the Middle Ages. As Wood remarks in his preface, the
book responds to the recent tendency to consider medieval studies
as superfluous and exotic by demonstrating the significant role
that reflexions on the Middle Ages and their origins have played in
European politics and culture from the beginning of the early
modern period until today.
*Hans-Werner Goetz, Sehepunkte*
Systematically reviewing the social context of individual scholars
and the reception of their work, Wood demonstrates not only the
inseparability of these two historical periods but also the
importance and cultural implications of the historian's task.
Recommended.
*M. Rautman, Choice,*
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages is thoroughly
researched and written with the great clarity that comes from an
unparalleled knowledge and understanding of the subject ... Ian
Wood's book will have a long shelf life because it is near
authoritative and surely no-one for a long time to come will have
such a command of the detail.
*Reviews in History*
This is an outstandingly searching and illuminating examination of
how historical debate has shaped, and been shaped by, cultural
horizons and political conflict ... no historian, and certainly no
medievalist, should be allowed out of graduate school without
having read it.
*R.I. Moore, English Historical Review*
To summarize the wealth of learning in The Modern Origins of the
Early Middle Ages is impossible.
*James Palmer, History*
Ian Wood's long-awaited survey of early medieval historiography
offers a broad panorama of approaches to and understandings of the
late Roman Empire and Germanic migrations by Western European
scholars between the eighteenth century and the present ... It is
difficult to do justice in this short space to Wood's careful
reading of the primary sources over more than three-and-a-half
centuries.
*Bonnie Effros, American Historical Review*
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